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PACKMAN-Net: A Distributed, Open-Access
and Scalable, Network of User-Friendly
Space Weather Stations.
M.-P. Zorzano1,2,
J. Martín-Torres 1,3, T. Mathanlal1, A. Vakkada
Ramachandran1 and J.-A. Ramirez-Luque1.1Atmospheric Science Group, Department of Computer Sciences, Electrical and Space
Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden, 2 Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain.
3 Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Armilla, Granada, Spain.
PSIDA Planetary Science Informatics and Data Analytics. 24th -26th April 2018 St. Louis, USA
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THE PACKMAN (Particle
Counter K-index Magnetic
Anomaly)
Instrument
Space Weather on Earth
The observations acquired by PACKMAN will be used to provide open access, real time
information, for:
1) education and public awareness of space weather phenomena;
2) to compare with Earth climate observations;
3) to provide real-time information of space weather variability for potential damage to
infrastructures (telecommunications, power generation facilities, aviation, transport, etcetc.);
4) to monitor natural radiation sources at multiple environments;
5) to monitor the variability of the Pfotzer maximum height during different stages of solar activity
and seasons and
6) This project may serve as a reference for future scalable networks where multiple
instruments are deployed at different sites or conditions and with different initiation
times, and where the informational value increases by adhering to a common PDS4
format and analysing the data in a concurrent way.
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PACKMAN monitoring approach
Arctic balloon campaigns to
monitor the variability of space
radiation between 10 km and
40 km height.
Complemented with surface
measurements
at multiple latitudes.
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Atmospheric and surface observations
Atmosphere
• Orbiter based observations are
available on-line, in almost real
time (graphical).
• Ionosphere monitoring is available
on-line (graphical)
• There is a lack of measurements
of systematic radiation profiles in
the lower layers of the atmosphere
in the Arctic.
Surface
• Only neutron counters (from
galactic cosmic rays) are available
on-line (graphical).
• K-index (geomagnetic variability)
is monitored as a proxy for solar
activity at multiple latitudes.
• It is more complex to have access
to crude data in real time. These
instruments are operated by
scientific institutions.
Purpose: deploy network of PACKMAN with real time on-line data access, deploy
equivalent instrument on balloon campaign with access on-line to the data.
Compare time-variability sequence from satellite to surface, and weather/climate
records.
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Circumpolar long
duration
stratospheric
balloon campaigns
1 week duration
space weather
stratospheric
measurements.
Started from
ESRANGE
(Sweden) operated
by SSC.
HEMERA European
call for
instruments.
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User community
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Planet Surface
Planet atmosphere and orbit
Planet sub-surface
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Open access to planetary data
• Because of our heritage from the and the REMS
Mars Science Laboratory (NASA) and the HABIT
ExoMars mission (ESA): the PACKMAN data will
have a similar structure as the PDS4 protocol that is
used by NASA/ESA for planetary exploration.
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PACKMAN data volume
• Data storage: 132 Kilobytes/Day
• PACKMAN data have 11 columns of measurement that start with a time stamp and
latitude/coordinate/elevation information.
• Every new line corresponds to a new time stamp, with measuring interval of 1 minute in UTC.
• All PACKMAN nodes provide observations with the same time stamp, and same observation
cadency.
• 365 days of continuous measurements/year.
• Scalable network:
– Internal nodes uploading daily.
– External nodes uploading at blocks of 3 months (pre-acceptance required).
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PACKMAN data requirements
Data uploading
(Instrument)
• Open access –“pre-
authorized” users- data
storage.
• Scalable (over time more
nodes).
• Automatic PDS4
labelling
Data downloading (Science/
Infrastructures/ Education/
Outreach)
• Global: open access
• Online tools for quick
preliminary analysis
(online representation,
online fast processing)
and comparison of
multiple nodes-data.
• Accessibility to multiple
simultaneous instrument
observations.
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Open-access pre-authorized data uploading
• Owncloud: Private Owncloud server for third party users
to upload their PACKMAN Data automatically using the
official Owncloud client.
• Automation tools: Using Python scripts to create the
repositories and put the data uploaded to owncloud and
check new files everyday.
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Labelling PDS4
• Label creation: Use of MakeLabelsPDS4 tool created by Dan
Scholes (PDS GeoSciences Node) using Excel to populate the
PDS4 XML fields over XML Templates
XML Template Example
PACKMAN Data File
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Online quick analysis: cross-instrument
comparison (multi latitud)
• Online data visualization
• (https://atmospheres.research.ltu.se/pes1)
Online plotting of
different variables using
DYGRAPHS API
(www.dygraphs.org)
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Summary: PACKMAN-Net
• This is an example of planetary instrumentation relevant data
(Space Weather) in our planet which needs a dedicated scalable
data archiving and processing architecture that adheres to the
PDS4 standard.
• Furthermore, this project may be used to benchmark the design of
archiving, scalable, networks of future planetary instrumentation
observations of the Moon or mars or Earth orbiters.
• This project will bridge the gap between society and research,
adding new stake holders such as teaching institutions (high
schools, universities), or industry and infrastructures
representatives.
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